Rifle stock



March 4 1924. I I

RUDOLF VON FROMMER a'mw's'rocx Filed Aug. 25. 1921 I mall/$0.2 If, van/flow Patented Mar. 4, 1924.

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RIFLE STOCK.

Application filed August 25, 1921. Serial No. 495,180.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDoLr VON FROM- MER, general director, a citizen of Hungary, residing at Budapest, IX. Soroksari ut 158, in the Province of Pest, Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rifle Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

It is known that rifle stocks have previously been provided with chambers for tools, etc., and these chambers were accessible through openings arranged on heelplates of the rifle stock while the said openings were in turn closed by small hinged or sliding lids. Owing to rough handling of the rifle however, for instance when with its heelplate it fellon the hard ground, such small lids were soon bent so that they could only be opened with dificulty.

The present invention eliminates this disadvantage by very simple means, using the heelplate itself as a lid for closing the chamber. The heelplate, as a component of the first rank, can certainly be made much stronger, than a lid mounted on the same, and thus it is enabled to resist increased wear.

A constructional form of the closing device, which forms the subject matter of the present invention, is represented in the attached drawing.

Fig. 1 is the front view of the stock with the heelplate open, while Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a part of the stock, showing the heelplate closed.

To make accessible the chamber 12 opening in the inner end of the stock a respectively for the closing of same, the heelplate 0 is so arranged, that it can be swung in its own plane about the screw d which secures the same to the end of the stock and when in closed position the heel plate is removably retained by a resilient pin, catch or the like. In the constructional form represented by the drawing there is a pin 7 for this purpose, which is controlled by a spring and is provided with a conical head 6. This head subsequent to locking engagement with the corresponding hole in the inturnedflange g of the heelplate, fastens the latter in its closed position. In the flange g of the heelplate that faces the conical head 6, there is a hole It arranged, through which by the aid .of a pointed object as the sharp end of a cartridge, the pin f, can be pressed down against the tendency of its spring and thus to uncover the chamber 1) the heelplate can be turned aside.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a rifle, a stock having article receiving chamber or chambers, a heelplate secured to the stock by a pin vertically arranged to the plane of the heelplate so that the latter is swingable in its own plane, and cooperative catch means provided on the stock and on the heelplate for releasably maintaining the heelplate in closed position.

2. A device as defined by claim 1 wherein an elongated anchoring screw is employed for securing the heelplate, the screw being arranged to swingably support the plate.

3. In a rifle, a stock having article receiving chamber or chambers, a heelplate secured to the stock by a pin vertically arranged to the plane of the heelplate an inflexed part on the latter provided with an opening and a spring pressed pin on the stock adapted to engage in the opening of the said infiexed part of the heelplate sub- 'stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RUDOLF v. FROMMER. Witnesses:

FRANK LoUY. Furs P. SCH6N, 

